All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
AGNES MARTINYou must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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You can’t make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can’t make a perfect painting.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
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I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?
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I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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Anything can be painted without representation.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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